Well, that's bad... There is only one more thing I can think of... Syslinux was able to boot in your laptop but it was not able to see any partition...maybe there is some kind of problem with LBA support... since your Key has 2GB, it does not really require LBA (only if >8GB) so you should be able to safely change the type from 0C (FAT 32 LBA) to 0B (FAT 32) with PTEdit. You can use the "set Type" button, which gets enabled once you place the cursor in any of the fields of the partition. Make sure you are looking at the USB Key (in your case Drive 2), before clicking "Save Changes". You do not want to alter your Hard Disk...

Still, I do not know why it should make a difference, since it worked on your desktop, but again...

Regarding the file to edit with an hexeditor is ubusb.c32 in your USB Key. UltraEdit in HexEditor mode should be fine.

reblu wrote:Another option is removing the -Z in the makebootfat line of the ubcd2usbmul script so that the multiboot would be both USB-HDD and USB-FDD, but not USB-ZIP.

This does not change the "No operating system" message while booting on the desktop. So I did not try on the laptop.

Well, you got the syslinux prompt when booting with the Key formatted as HDD. You could try changing the FAT type in that instance.

The 0C appears only if I format with the "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool".
If I format with any ubcd2usbxxx command, it's one of the three shown on your previous screens, 0C never appears, so I've got nothing to change from 0C to 0B

Most of all, whatever existing previously on the key, running any of ubcd2usbxxx formats the key in no bootable way for my laptop.

To sum up, the best thing we had is with the ubcd2usbfdd which allows to boot only my desktop and as you say, I will look again in my BIOS with my key connected, which was not before...

I'm going to reboot and will come back here to tell you if, this way, I have some more options than the RMD-FDD I've already seen before.

My usb drive is aleady bootable and it boots into dos and has various tools on it for recovery.

Do You perhaps have an executable for the USB-UBCD I could fit into usb that would self extract and load in the same fashion that Onsite's Data Recovery Does From a Floppy in DOS (which I also Have on my flash drive, but it aint free )

Also would you mind integrating the Infamous USB Driver by Hairy Motto , Basically I would like to
1. Open and Run the USB-UBCD from .exe in DOS

2. Have the USB-UBCD load the famous USBASPI.SYS Driver...

Why?

That Driver by Hairy Motto is infamous finding large external hard drives.

If the USB-UBCD will start and then load that USB Driver then it will find external hard drives and I can copy recovered files to 250 gb external hard drive instead of my 128 mb flash drive. It takes several times with my puny flash drive.

reblu wrote:Ok I think I am ready to explain how to create the Ultimate UBCD on a USB drive, despite the lack of interest in the poll (there are only 5 votes). Still, this thread seems to have quite a few views...

I hope this is not a long post. I’ll call the package the UBUSB. The instructions are basically for Windows users, but should not be much different for Linux users.

If you do not want to burn the ISO to access the contents to copy them to the USB, you can use a tool like virtualCDcontrolpanel

Note that I have not managed to be able to run INSERT, windiag, g4u or rip.

1.- In order to improve the compatibility of the drive with the most number of BIOS, we will format the drive in USB-ZIP compatibility mode, we will make it bootable and we will load syslinux in it (WARNING: THIS WILL REMOVE ALL THE CONTENTS OF THE USB DRIVE)
1.1 Unzip the Makebootfat package to a folder. Unzip Syslinux to another folder and Copy ldlinux.sys, mbr.bin and ldlinux.bss from the Syslinux folder into the makebootfat folder
1.2 Open a DOS window, go to that folder and type
makebootfat -o usb -Z -Y -b ldlinux.bss -m mbr.bin -c ldlinux.sys

2.- Copy all the contents of the \images subfolder of the UBCD into the root of the USB drive

3.- Copy the rest of folders to the USB drive directly, except the boot folder. So your USB drive will have all the subfolders of the UBCD, except for the folders "boot" and "images". Your USB drive root folder will contain all the images.

4.- Remove grub.iso and offline.iso from the root of the USB drive.

5.- Copy the contents of my menu package in the root folder of the USB drive

6.- copy the new images of bcdl, grub and offline to the root of the USB drive.

7.- Rename the freedos image from FDUBCD.IMG to freedos.img and copy it as well to the root of the USB drive.

8.- Copy chain.c32 to the root of the USB drive from the com32/modules subfolder of the syslinux package

I hope somebody finds this useful.
[Edit: Link to Syslinux updated to 3.09]

2reblu: Pls make available the advanced usb menu sources, because it seems the project is lacking usability without customization of advanced menu. Currently using a comparatively ugly syslinux.cfg menu.

Thanks for a great work you and nwdsk have done!

Mostly using usb key with ubusb in testing memory on a problematic or new machines...

Please let me know how to make a custom image...
I wanted to replace memtest86+ v.1.55 to v.1.65
after I wrote the image to FDD and later

I have managed to make a usable and decently small image of memtest86+ v.1.65
using FDD image from http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw/index.htm
and VFD (Virtual Floppy Driver for Win32)
First mount an image of 1.44Mb diskette to VFD as drive b:,
cleared the original content
Then

Hi!
I've made a version of Super Grub Disk (a modified version of Grub) that can be boot from a flash usb disk. I do no know how the UBCD menu can be called from Grub but I think it will be quite easy.

I think that SGD will make your UBCD in flash disk more easy although I think you know more about the UBCD menu than you.

However, I am tryingn to figure out a way to keep my USB booting use to a minimum. I am looking to only boot three floppy images from my USB drive (Ghost with NIC drivers) but still use the UBCD-style menus to choose among the three. How and what do I need to accomplish this?

I would only like the menu to appear once it boots from the USB drive and then boot from whichever floppy image I choose from the menu.

I've been trying to do this on my own but I just can't seem to get it to work. Thanks!

Just unzip to a new directory. Then go to that directory and run
'ubcd2usb <path-to-ubcd> <usb-drive>'

Erwin

I'm trying this now with my iPod nano, would be cool if I could boot from it. I'll let you know if it worked in a few minutes.

Update:
I could boot from it, but a lot of programs did not work, I would get this message:

Panic: MCB chain corrupted, system halted.

Also my iPod itself would not boot anymore (to play music), so tried copying all files from the ipod to my harddisk, then restored the ipod to a working state, and then copied the ubcd files back to the ipod, but now when I boot from the ipod I get a screen full of weird characters/symbols.

I also have iPodLinux(.org) running on it, but that shouldn't be a problem right?